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Noggin (Paperback)

Staff Reviews

NOGGIN is the improbable yet wholly believable story of Travis, a
cancer-ridden teen who has his head cut off and cryogenically frozen in
hopes that someday medical science will advance and he'll be able to get
reattached to a healthy donor body. Fast-forward 5 years: Travis is
back & feeling better than ever. Only all his friends are now in
their 20s, his girlfriend is engaged to someone else, and he's still
stuck in high school. I LOVED this hilarious, heart-filled story.

— Suzanna

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2014 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST

Travis Coates has a good head...on someone else's shoulders. A touching, hilarious "tour de force of imagination and empathy" (Booklist, starred review) from John Corey Whaley, author of the Printz and Morris Award-winning Where Things Come Back.

Listen--Travis Coates was alive once and then he wasn't.Now he's alive again.Simple as that.

The in between part is still a little fuzzy, but Travis can tell you that, at some point or another, his head got chopped off and shoved into a freezer in Denver, Colorado. Five years later, it was reattached to some other guy's body, and well, here he is. Despite all logic, he's still sixteen, but everything and everyone around him has changed. That includes his bedroom, his parents, his best friend, and his girlfriend. Or maybe she's not his girlfriend anymore? That's a bit fuzzy too.

Looks like if the new Travis and the old Travis are ever going to find a way to exist together, there are going to be a few more scars.